Stationery



E. A. GOVE.

STATIONERY.

APPucATsoN FILED MAY :3. ma.

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Patented Aug. 2, 1921.

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INVENTOR a printed bulletin, which may -EDGAB A.. GOVE, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOB. T0

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STATIONERY.

Application :tiled May 13,

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, Encan A. Govn, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and u'seful provements in Stationery, of which thefollowing is a specification. v

This invention relates to stations more particularly to means for comindicia of diiierent characteristi sheet structure for mailing purpcses'as an inclosure.

commercial practice, and especially where it is desirable to provide inclosures which pertain to various subjects-matter, it is the general ractice to carry the indicia relative to such individual subjectfmattcr on sheets separate from those carryingother data or subjects-matter, the several sheets then being folded and inclosed within the envelop for mailing purposes. For instance, be more or less in the form of an advertisin circular, accompanies a letter to an indiviual, both being xnclosed. Or, a statement of account, instead of carrying a rsonal notation thereon, ma be accompanied by an individual letter. n either casc,.there is not only. a requirement of care in assembling the various inclosures, but, in addition, there is a requirement of providing separate suplies, separate printing" operations, etc. urthermore, there is no assurance that-the inclosure tothe personal communication is of the desired or intended type.

One of the factors which tend to more or less necessitate operations of this ty are the limitations which are prdyided in); the use of the ty writer, and the more or less prevalent met od of obtaining copies of letters by the use of carbon sheets, the standard typewriter bein arranged i to receive pa r of limited widizh.

e present invention is designed to provide a more efficient solution of the problems which are necessarily inherent to the methods above indicated, by the use of a single sheet structure, and so arranging the indicia there on as to permit oldin along lines which will serve to naturally istinguish the indicia in. accordance wlth its characteristics, the folding of the sheet on these lines making it of a size :adapted to be readily rcceived within a typewriting machine and at the same time permit of obtaining a carbon bining Spe'clcatlon ot Letters Patent.

-mit, if desired, a letter companies thelatter without a Por' Patented Aug. 2, 1921. imY serial nu. escasa.

copy of the personal communication, or perl press copy thereof to be made, `without alecting the unitary sheet structure. As a result, assur-encens not only had that the proper indiciav supplemental to the personal communication acn vliability of 'error of mclosure oiits omisson,but in addition, so presents the dierent indicia as will c nable the recipientto readily. separate the dlilerent'indicia without mutilatmgvor destmyi the integrity' of either of the characteristic indicia. n addition, it permits of combinin indicia or data pertain- 111gV to a class or e public generally-as for instancein the form of a,bu1letinand personal indicia in the form of a,v oommum'cationV pertainin to special subject-mt. For nstance,t ebulletin may be in theform of a catal e or Pricelist and the letter communicatlon taln to one or more 4of the items of the in which case the sheet may be folded in such manner as to expose the particular portionof the bulletin list 00ncurrently with the exposed letter contents, the position of the letter section. of the sheet being such as to permit foldingfor this pur ose.

o these and other ends, the nature of which will be readily understoodas the invention is hereinafter disclosed, saidinventionconsists in the improved construction and combination o'f parte `hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accom. panyin drawi and more particularly pointe ont in the appended c aims.

In the accompanymg drawings, in which similar reference characters indicate similar parts in each of the views:

Figures 1 and 2 represent the opposite faces of a three-section sheet which may be employed in carrying out the general princi les of the present invention.

gig. 3 is a view of the sheet of Figs. 1 and 2 folded.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3 'in which but two sections are employed.

The invention is capable of use in many forms a few of which are more particularly described herein, but it is to be understood that the specific forms disclosed are more or less illustrative and are intended mainly to indicate the general character of the invention.

ln each of the forms, however, there are a srsk few characteristic features which are com* mon in all of the forms and upon which the invention is based. Among these are tlie following (a.) the sheet is of rectan lar contour and such as can be readily printed upon onV latter section is greferably, although not es-` sentially, of a wi th less than the corresponding width ofthe remaining section or sections, so that the folded sheet places the letter section in superposed rela tion to another section which carries indicia of a generally dillerent ty Where the sections are of different wih a portion of the underlying section will be exposed concurrently with the section carrying the personaloommunication. This general arrangement permits the section carrylng the personal communication to be torn from the remainder of the sheet, if desired, without disturbing the indicia of either the personal communication section or the remainin section or sections, thus enabling the entire sheet structure to be filed as a unit,

to oe separated into itsfparts and liled separately, orto be separated-and the non-personal portion entirely discarded. In either case, however, the attention of the recipient of the personal communication is inevitably called to the contents of the remainder of the sheetwhether such remainder is referred to directly within the Vpersonal communication or not.

In Figs. 1 and 2 I have shown, more or le diagrammatically, two sides of a sheet adapted to carry out one form of the present invention, this 'sheet being rectangular in form and normally folded on the lines 10 and 11, thus dividing the sheet into three sections-a, b and c. As clown, the folding lines are so arranged as to provide sections b and c of substantially equal area, while section a, is of considerably less area1 all of the sections, however, being substantially equal in length in one dimension. this length correspondinT to the direction of length of the folding lines l0 and ll, the difference in arca being provided by 4the decrease in dimension of section fr inl a 'direction trans verse to the folding lin. In this form, section a forms the rseetilon for the personal Communication, and m'ayhahvc either or both fares formed to receive the 'contents of such personal communication,rnd this mayxmclude the business headiuf` 'which is usually located at the head of a letter sheet.

-ing to jewelry, the contents thus becoming more or less a bulletin of useful information pertaining to the particular Vtype of business and which may tend to interest the individual recipient of the personal communication, although the printed matter is of general information suitable for general distribution. As will be understood, the vfact that sections b and c are integrally connected with section a, gives assurance to the writer of the personal communication that the general information contained in the bulletin service connected thereto must accompany the personal communication into the hands ofthe recipient of the communication, and the difference in width of section a as compared to either of the sections which they overlie, insures that in reading the communication a portion at least of the printed bulletin is exposed, thus calling the attention of the recipient to the contents of the bulletin.

As will be seen, the head of each of the sections is at the same end of the section, thus providing that in reading each section, the general direction of reading is the same, the lines of folding extending in the same general direction. And since section a is an end section-either at the right or the left as may be desired-it is foldable to provideh the topmost section of the folded sections and thus be in suitable position for typing the personal communication, it being readily understood that a carbon sheet and the copy sheet can be readily inserted between section a and the underlying section to provide for obtaining a carbon copy of the communication if desired, it being obvious that the sheet may be inserted into the typewriter in its normall -folded condition, lso that the ,limits as to w1dth of sections b and c is limited only h v the width of sheet possible to be introduced into the typewriting machine.

Obviously, section a. may be folded in either direction and thus be folded on to either face of section I) or, on to the outer face of section c. This is of advantage in connection with certain uses, as for instance, '125 where it is desired to use sections b and c for the purpose of carrying special matter to which particular attention is to be called in the personal communicationrin which ease the particular column of sections b and c sonal communicationas section a overlies the particular face offthe`remaining sec tions would carry the data which fomslthc basis for such infomation. Where this data may be located on each of the three faces referred to, it is preferred to arrange the opposite facesuof section a as capable of receiving the face of section a. which would be exposed concurrentl with the desired column when the section 1s folded on to the face carrying the column,v being'. employed as the face which carries the communication. However, where sectionsb and c carry generaly bulletin information, and there is no particular necessityfor emphasizing a. particular part of the bulletin, one of the faces of sec- *tional size of the the three ctions not add materially to the expense of the .riation 'from tion a may bev utilized for the personal' communication, the other face carrying advertising or'. general matter and may, if desired, carry a coupon, as for instance indicated in ig. 1. In such general use, section a may be folded on top of section o and thus place the communication as the outer face of the sheet, orfsection a may be Vfolded to extend between folded sections b and c, thus more or less hiding the communication. Or, the` communication maybe placed on that face of section e which forms the under face of the section when the latteris folded, the recipient, in such case, simply. unfolding section c to gain access to the personal communication. From the above it will be readily seen that' the commercialheading or headings'of see tion a\ may 1 the printing f entire sheet requi` for the purpose of printing, and the addi-` paper required by forming as an integral whole does sections' band c, so t at the paper; in fact, the paper cost will be generally decreased through the use of nons ial pa r which is made possible through t e fact t at the folded sheet is of ply formation. p In Fig. 4 I have shown the invention as applied to a two-section sheet, section c being omitted, section b carrying the bulletin material, section a providing for the personal communication of iriformatior as in the three-section form, section a: being folded to overlie the desired face of section b.

With either the two-section or threesec tionsheet, section a may be bodily removed on line IO-which may, if desired, be of a weakened line formation-enabling the personal communication to be filed as such and the remaining section or sections filed awa or destroyed as the recipient may desire, 1t having been brouglit to the attention of the recipient h v reason of its connection with section a.

personal communication, that` each case, however, 'communication ismaintamed separate from provided concurrent witli' no separate handling h While the invention is designed more articularly for use in relations such as a ve indicated, itis notllimited to such use, being adapted -for other uses, such for instance as in where it is desirable-toprovide a nal communication in connection wit a statementwf account and 'where it may not be desirableto lace the communication directly upon t e statement. In such-use, the statement of account would be carried, for instance, by section b, section a carrying the personal communication, and since the two sections are capable ofbeing separated without destroying the general characteristics of'either, the two sections which would be employed can be separated and filed in their individual Lrecords. Obviously, in this use, either or both faces of section a may be utilized for the personal omnliiunication, or cple face may be utilizes or a vertisi or ot er' urposes as ma found desirabne. y

As will be understood, the invention rovides for combining in one sheet indicia lilaving different general characteristics. For instance, theindicia of one istic may be that designed or ageneral'class and lulapted'for eral distribution, while the indicia of di erent characteristic is that which Vis involved in the personal communication; or, the monthly statement and personal communication se'ctions would provide for indicia of dierent characteristics. In the indicia of personal the .remamng indicia and capable of separation' therefrom, leaving the indicia of either characteristic unimpaired when separation is so as to pro de section .a of less widt than the adjacen section, this may be varied to meet individual usefand desire, and such vathis formation may extend to a point where sections a and b are of equal dimansions. a

As will be understood, the invention is of wide application andthe particular form in which 1t may be employed may vary in ac- Y cordance with the particular use to which it is to be a plied.

And I esire to be understood as reserving the ri ht to make any and all such changes or modifications that may be found necessary in meeting these conditions, in so far as the same may fall within the spirit and scope o'f the invention as expressed in the acompanyin claims.

Vhat I claim is:

1. A combined letter head and form, comprising a first leaf havin letter head indicia thereon and having a lank space for the insertion of a message, and a second leaf having rmanent indicia thereon connected to one side edge of the first leaf throughout neral characterad. While I'prerer to locate the foldi lines its length, said first leaf being arranged to fold along said edge into juxtaposition with said second leaf and being' of less width than said second leaf, where y when so folded a portion of the permanent indicia on said second leaf is exposed, the two leaves bein formed by-the folding of a single integra sheet. A

2; A combined form and blank comprising a first leaf having a blank space for the insertion of a message and a second leaf of the same height as the first leaf throughout, connected to a side edge thereof and arranged to fold along said edge into juxtaposition with said first leaf, the second leaf having permanent indicia inscribed thereon, and

a third leaf connected to the other side edge of the second leaf and arranged to fold along said edge into juxtaposition with said second leaf, the third leaf also` having permanent indicia inscribed thereon, said rst leaf being of less `width than the second leaf, with blank vertical spaces between the several adjacent leaves to provide space for folding, the connection between the first and' second leaves being weakened bo facilitate the ready separation thereof, said several leaves being formed by the folding of a single integral sheet.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 

